Link To Kill Spam
Has the Office of Strategic Influence come up with a great way to kill spam?
Better yet, if you’re sick of getting bulk mail clogging up your HDB mailbox, here’s another non-tech idea, but so hilarious I just had to mention it.
You know those obnoxious “refinance your home” or credit card
scamsoffers that you get in the mail? This is called direct marketing, where marketers use a reduced bulk postal rate to send entire forests of paper mail to you.So this is something you can do in response.
Find a shoebox, or a storage bin, or any cardboard box you have laying around. Fill it up with bricks, big blocks of iron, or maybe cement. Tape the box up with everyday packaging tape. Use a junkmail’s postage-paid envelope and tape it neatly to the top cover of the box. NEATLY. And mail it off. Envelope revenge!
A few days later, your package shows up at the junk mailer’s location, and they have to pay for every cent of delivery. Once the cost outweighs the benefit, they will stop sending out direct mail marketing material. And that is my goal.
Doing this has the following beneficial side effects:
-Since these companies pay the post office, this lightens the load taxpayers need to pay to keep the post office operating
-This creates employment opportunities. The post office keeps cutting staff because of lack of buisness; this gives the post office a huge source of income from the credit card
scamcompanies.-This will lead to more cautious bulk mailing. Maybe these junk mailers simply don’t know they are annoying people? Hopefully they will learn very quickly!
-This makes me laugh maniacly, like a cartoon supervillan.
-This saves trees. Once enough of us do this, the junk mail companies will stop sending us junk. Or at least they will be more discriminate about it. It will save trees and keep the landfills empty! Yay!
-If we do this enough, the USPS will make so much money, that they will lower postage costs.